Buccæ, buccârum. Horat. The twon sides of the cheekes that are puffed vp with blowing.Buccæ fluentes.Cic.Hanging cheekes.Buccas tumidas rumpere. Pers. Bucca vetula. Iuuen.Inflare buccas.To swell for anger.Buccænoscenda est mensura. Iuuenal. Quod in buccam venerit, seribito.Cic.Wryte at auenture whatsoeuer commeth in thy minde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
bucca (not buccha), ae, f. [kindred with bu/zw, buka/nh; Fr. bouche]. I.The cheek (puffed or filled out in speaking, eating, etc.; diff. from genae, the side of the face, the cheeks, and from mala, the upper part of the cheek under the eyes; v. Plin. 11, 37, 57, 156 sqq.; mostly in plur.; class.): buccam implere, Cato ap. Gell. 2, 22, 29: sufflare buccas, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 42: inflare, id. ib. 5, 6, 7: rumpere buccas,
to write bombast
, Pers. 5, 13: sufflare buccis, Mart. 3, 17, 4.—In violent anger (cf. in Gr. fusa=n ta\s gna/qous, deina\ fusa=n, etc.): quin illis Juppiter ambas Iratus buccas inflet, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 21: pictus Gallus ... distortus, ejectā linguā, buccis fluentibus, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Red. in Sen. 6, 13: fluentes pulsataeque buccae, id. Pis. 11, 25 B. and K.: purpurissatae (rouged), Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 35.—In blowing the fire: buccā foculum excitat, Juv. 3, 262 al.—Hence, b. Dicere (scribere) quod or quidquid in buccam venit, a colloq. phrase, to speak (write) whatever comes uppermost, Cic. Att. 1, 12, 4; 7, 10fin.; 14, 7, 2; Mart. 12, 24, 5.— Also ellipt.: garrimus quidquid in buccam, Cic. Att. 12, 1, 2.—B.Meton.1.One who fills his cheeks in speaking, a declaimer, bawler: Curtius et Matho buccae, Juv. 11, 34 (jactanticuli, qui tantum buccas inflant et nihil dicunt, Schol.); cf.: bucca loquax vetuli cinoedi, Mart. 1, 42, 13: homo durae buccae, Petr. 43, 3; so of a trumpeter: notaeque per oppida buccae, Juv. 3, 35.—2.One who stuffs out his cheeks in eating, a parasite, Petr. 64, 12.—3.A mouthful: bucca panis, Petr. 44, 2; Mart. 7, 20, 8; 10, 5, 5.—II.Transf.A. From men to animals; of croaking frogs, Plin. 11, 37, 65, 173.—B. In gen., a cavity; of the knee-joint, Plin. 11, 45, 103, 250.